Brian63
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Don,
The problem is not that I am seeing ill behavior here that I am not seeing elsewhere. The problem actually is that I am seeing the same ill behavior here that I am seeing elsewhere. In recent times I have found myself lurking on Facebook, and for years already I have been lurking/posting on other conservative and religious sites. I see the same sick trends and behaviors and norms established there, and it bothers me to see them. I had just thought our community would do better than that. We would actually be interested in understanding the horrific event first and foremost and then have serious discussions on how to reduce any kind of similar events from occurring going forward. That should be our initial impulse, that should be our general goal, that should be our focused purpose. For so long I have seen on so many sites all across the internet, the exact opposite of that happening. People’s initial impulse or general goal seems to be to learn about some tragedy happening and then think “Ok, how can I use this event to get in a quick jab at [Obama, or Trump, or conservative media, or liberal media, whomever…]. If they do want to criticize such people and such media or anyone or anything else, that is excellent. It is just the just initial impulse being towards derailing the news story so that we can criticize our political opponents with *non-serious and even satirical quick-punches,* instead of trying to actually discuss and resolve the problems, that bothers me so much. If someone here makes some tasteless remark *in a thread like this where we were getting news info about the details of what happened* then we should just try to ignore that troll and focus on the story itself. The trolls can be debated and refuted elsewhere. Let’s just make the actual event the focus of the thread and our attention, rather than the trolls who also post in it, or the political targets we want to criticize by finding a way to use the event.
Again I want to make clear---it is not something unique to this particular thread or this particular forum that bothers me. It is the fact that I am seeing it all over the internet, and not seeing anything different about it in the forum here. I just have a particular psychological and emotional connection to this forum, and would hate to see it become essentially just another forum somewhere on the internet, posting the same garbage that is seen everywhere else on the internet, and nothing better.
Brian
The problem is not that I am seeing ill behavior here that I am not seeing elsewhere. The problem actually is that I am seeing the same ill behavior here that I am seeing elsewhere. In recent times I have found myself lurking on Facebook, and for years already I have been lurking/posting on other conservative and religious sites. I see the same sick trends and behaviors and norms established there, and it bothers me to see them. I had just thought our community would do better than that. We would actually be interested in understanding the horrific event first and foremost and then have serious discussions on how to reduce any kind of similar events from occurring going forward. That should be our initial impulse, that should be our general goal, that should be our focused purpose. For so long I have seen on so many sites all across the internet, the exact opposite of that happening. People’s initial impulse or general goal seems to be to learn about some tragedy happening and then think “Ok, how can I use this event to get in a quick jab at [Obama, or Trump, or conservative media, or liberal media, whomever…]. If they do want to criticize such people and such media or anyone or anything else, that is excellent. It is just the just initial impulse being towards derailing the news story so that we can criticize our political opponents with *non-serious and even satirical quick-punches,* instead of trying to actually discuss and resolve the problems, that bothers me so much. If someone here makes some tasteless remark *in a thread like this where we were getting news info about the details of what happened* then we should just try to ignore that troll and focus on the story itself. The trolls can be debated and refuted elsewhere. Let’s just make the actual event the focus of the thread and our attention, rather than the trolls who also post in it, or the political targets we want to criticize by finding a way to use the event.
Again I want to make clear---it is not something unique to this particular thread or this particular forum that bothers me. It is the fact that I am seeing it all over the internet, and not seeing anything different about it in the forum here. I just have a particular psychological and emotional connection to this forum, and would hate to see it become essentially just another forum somewhere on the internet, posting the same garbage that is seen everywhere else on the internet, and nothing better.
Brian
